AWB Newsletter Mar 09 2007
Subject: AWB - Recycle Your Energy Day; Gulf Coast news; Wish List
 E-Newsletter
March 9,
2007
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Dear
Sarah,
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Recycle Your Energy
Community Acupuncture Events
April 22, 2007 - Earth Day
A non-toxic, pesticide free event for individuals, families, and
communities that is good for the environment.
Please consider holding an event on or near this date to support AWB's
programs, and to promote your own work.
We will send you a great poster and materials you need to do a
community acupuncture event.
Contact info@acuwithoutborders.org
for information and to receive a packet.
Thanks to Leonard Sokolov (CO) for coming up with the great name for
this event!
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IT'S OFFICIAL!
We are
happy to announce that AWB has received its official IRS 501C(3) tax-
exempt status!
All
past donations are retroactively tax deductible going back to the start
of the organization.
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March
2007 photo of trailer park in New Orleans
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Gulf Coast Hurting Mentally,Emotionally, Spiritually, Physically
(from March 7, 2007 email)
The Gulf Coast is frankly in sad shape,
physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
To give an idea, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
mental health services so far have totaled $24.3 million for 260,000
residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and that's not coming close to
meeting the need.
How bad is it? According to a new study jointly conducted by the
Columbia University National Center for Preparedness and the Children's
Health Fund, up to 35,000 children - one-third of them across the
Gulf Coast still displaced by Hurricane Katrina - are plagued by mental
health, behavioral and school problems. Many of those children's
parents are depressed, leaving them unable to help the children,
according to Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the center and president
of the health fund.
As The Hattiesburg American
newspaper has pointed out, the numbers in the study are staggering.
More than 60 percent of the parents and caregivers tested for high
anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to
the report. Even more staggering is the number of children still living
in FEMA trailers - not just in the trailer parks set up after the storm
but in many neighborhoods that were devastated. Those numbers are
somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000, although Redlener said he is
"quite comfortable" in saying that 25,000 to 35,000 of them are in
serious trouble.
These mental health problems among children -- the innocents --
is cause for concern.
AWB is
raising money to go back to New Orleans. We need to raise $10,000.00
immediately to continue our program. Please consider donating something
to help this effort and/or help us find businesses that would like to
sponsor this work.
In May we will be holding a training for
the public in New Orleans, teaching basic Chinese medicine techniques
for self care, including the NADA ear protocol using ear seeds, qigong
and acupressure - offering tools for people to be able to help
themselves in an ongoing manner.
The AAAOM has
generously offered to host this training at their May 9-13th
conference in New Orleans. We hope to see you there! Go to AAOM.org for
conference information, or Click Here.
We welcome donations of cash and supplies to support this event (please
contact info@acuwithoutborders.org about supply donation needs).
Click Here to Donate to New Orleans Program
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AWB Veterans Clinic -
Albuquerque
Other AWB News and Events
- Upcoming Trainings (16 CEU's, NCCAOM and CA
approved): Bay Area (March 23-25), Boston (March 30-April 1), New York
(June 1-3), Chicago (Oct. 12-14). Pending confirmation - Maryland,
Seattle, Maine. For more information email
trainings@acuwithoutborders.org
- We have been invited to do a presentation to the
Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in May.
- We are doing a training for the public at the AAAOM
conference (see description above). We have also been invited to do a
presentation at the banquet luncheon at the conference.
- We have been invited by Yo San University to speak at
their graduation in March.
- We have been invited by NADA to join a panel
presentation at their conference in May.
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 AWB Wish
List
No, we are not wishing for more portapotties! But we do really need the
following:
Volunteer Lawyer (for specific questions, not a huge
time commitment)
Treasurer for Board
Volunteer Grantwriter
Lapel microphone
Powerpoint projector
Tent City, New
Orleans
Desktop computer
Printer/fax/copier
Please email info@acuwithoutborders.org
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Last night I watched the movie "A Raisin in the Sun",
based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry. This was my favorite book in 5th
grade. At one point the grandmother says: "There's always something
left to love. When do you think is the time to love somebody the most?
When he's done good and made things easy for everybody? No, no --- no,
that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and he can't
believe in himself because the world done whipped him so. You make sure
you've taken into account the hills and the valleys to get to where he
is."
Sincerely,
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Diana
Fried, Executive Director
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